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Country
  
France

Department
  
Somme

Canton
  
Conty

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Arrondissement
  
Amiens

Intercommunality
  
Canton of Conty

Thoix

Thoix is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Geography

Thoix is situated 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Amiens, on the D100 road. The Parquets river, a small tributary of the river Évoissons, which flows into the Selle, has its source in Thoix and also feeds the castle moat

History

The village has been known by many names over the centuries: Teoletum, Teoleium, Tois in 1140, Thois in 1212 and Thoys by 1301. The inhabitants are known as Téoduliens.

Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (1488–1525), a favourite of king Francis I, was seigneur of Thoix.

Places of interest

  • The fifteenth-century château.
  • Saint-Etienne's fifteenth-century church
  • A fifteenth-century stone cross in the square
  • A dovecote in the courtyard of the farm opposite the château
  • A memorial to an aerial combat between a French aeroplane and 8 German fighter planes on 5 June 1940.

    • References

    Thoix Wikipedia
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